Meet the restorers working on the Pasteur Museum's 19th-century laboratory glassware

Back in October, the museum team gave you an opportunity to meet and talk to the conservation and restoration experts working on scientific objects and instruments. This was an opportunity to find out about the profession of conserving and restoring cultural assets from young professionals and also a chance to learn more about the Institut Pasteur's heritage.

This first restoration phase revealed several items that had not previously been on public display, such as Roux culture flasks, containers used to grow the microbiological culture medium invented by Émile Roux (1853-1933), seeded by Jean Binot (1867-1909), a laboratory head and close colleague of Émile Roux.

The museum team is delighted to invite you once again to come and see the glassware collections from the Scientific Souvenir Room, which will be restored on the Institut Pasteur campus.

Viviane Miceski, a conservation and restoration expert specializing in glass, and Esther Jorel, a conservation and restoration expert specializing in organic materials, will be happy to discuss their restoration work and explain the history of these items.

Given the fragile nature of the collections and the size of the working space, visits are on a reservation-only basis.

Visit dates:
•    Thursday January 30 from 10 to 10.45am
•    Thursday January 30 from 11 to 11.45am
•    Thursday February 6 from 10 to 10.45am
•    Thursday February 6 from 11 to 11.45am

Length of visits: between 30 and 45 minutes

Contact to book a slot: emma.lepretre@pasteur.fr

 

 

This video contains images of the restoration work on the 19th-century glassware